{"id":88,"date":"2014-05-28T00:12:06","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T00:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncpeacebooth.org\/content\/?page_id=88"},"modified":"2014-09-29T01:14:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T01:14:04","slug":"peace-and-justice-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ncpeacebooth.org\/content\/materials\/peace-and-justice-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace and Justice reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"color: #000000;\">Peace and Justice reading list<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A useful way to find good books are the best of the annual \u201cNotable Book\u201d lists\u2014 most are available online, e.g.: The Association for Library Service to Children (Amer. Library Assoc.) shares its own list as well as award lists: www.ala.org (other ALSC lists: software, web sites, DVDs, toys, recordings.) Other awards listed on the ALSC site: Newbery, Caldecott, Pura Belpre (Latino authors), Batchelder, Odyssey, Geisel, Sibert. See also Coretta Scott King and Jane Addams awards; over a dozen state \u201cChildren\u2019s Choice\u201d awards; notable book lists of Library Journal, Horn Book, Publisher\u2019s Weekly, NY &amp; LA Times, Guardian, etc.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">Books about Books<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li><em>Great Books About Things Kids Love, 750 Recommended Books for Children 3-14,<\/em>\u00a0by Kathleen Odean. She has produced similar books for girls, boys, and toddlers.<\/li>\n<li><em>Spirited Minds, African American books for boys,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Strong Souls Singing, African American books for girls<\/em>, both edited by Archie Givens.<\/li>\n<li>What Stories Does My Son Need to Hear, reviews 100 recommended character building books (plus 100 films as well), by Michael Gurian and Terry Trueman.<\/li>\n<li>Literature for Today&#8217;s Young Adults by Alleen Nilsen &amp; Kenneth Donelson.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">Preschool to Grade 2<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li><em>14 Cows for America<\/em>\u00a0by Carmen Deedy<\/li>\n<li><em>Martin&#8217;s Big Words<\/em>\u00a0by Doreen Rappaport<\/li>\n<li><em>Teammates<\/em>\u00a0by Peter Golenbock<\/li>\n<li><em>Peas on Earth<\/em>\u00a0by Todd Doodler (board bk)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Story of Ruby Bridges<\/em>\u00a0by Robert Coles<\/li>\n<li><em>The Peace Book<\/em>\u00a0by Todd Parr<\/li>\n<li><em>Peace Begins with You<\/em>\u00a0by Katherine Scholes<\/li>\n<li><em>Peaceful Pieces<\/em>\u00a0by Anna Hines (poetry)<\/li>\n<li><em>Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down<\/em>\u00a0by Andrea Pinkney<\/li>\n<li><em>A Little Peace<\/em>\u00a0by Barbara Kerley<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">Third to Sixth Grade<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li><em>Faraway Island<\/em>\u00a0by Annika Thor<\/li>\n<li><em>Alfred Nobel: The Man Behind the Peace Prize<\/em>\u00a0by Kathy-Jo Wargin<\/li>\n<li><em>Twice As Good<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Michelson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">Middle School<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li><em>Crow<\/em>\u00a0by Barbara Wright<\/li>\n<li><em>Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes<\/em>\u00a0by Eleanor Coerr<\/li>\n<li><em>Wednesday Wars<\/em>\u00a0by Gary Schmidt<\/li>\n<li><em>Peace, Locomotion<\/em>\u00a0by Jacqueline Woodson<\/li>\n<li><em>Becoming Naomi Leon<\/em>\u00a0by Pam Ryan<\/li>\n<li><em>Fallen Angels<\/em>\u00a0by Walter Myers<\/li>\n<li><em>Long Walk to Water<\/em>\u00a0by Linda Sue Park<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 style=\"color: #000000;\">Adults<\/h4>\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<ul style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<li><em>Peaceful Revolution<\/em>\u00a0by Paul Chappell<\/li>\n<li><em>The End of War<\/em>\u00a0by Paul Chappell<\/li>\n<li><em>Peace Is Every Step<\/em>\u00a0by Thich Nha Hanh<\/li>\n<li><em>Practicing Peace in Times of War<\/em>\u00a0by Pema Chodron<\/li>\n<li><em>Cultivating Peace<\/em>\u00a0by James O&#8217;Dea<\/li>\n<li><em>It Happened on the Way to War<\/em>\u00a0by Rye Barcott<\/li>\n<li><em>Never Fall Down<\/em>\u00a0by Patricia McCormick (teen book about surviving the Killing Fields)<\/li>\n<li><em>Peace: A history of movements and ideas<\/em>\u00a0by David Cortright<\/li>\n<li><em>Peace is the Way: Writings on Nonviolence from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.<\/em>\u00a0Edited by Walter Wink<\/li>\n<li><em>Women on War: Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age from a Brilliant International Assembly.\u00a0<\/em>Edited by Daniela Gioseffi<\/li>\n<li><em>Peace Action, Past, Present, and Future.<\/em>\u00a0Edited by Glen Harold Stassen and Lawrence S. Wittner<\/li>\n<li><em>The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced<\/em>\u00a0by War, by Andrew J. Bacevich<\/li>\n<li><em>Abraham Went Out: a Biography of A. J. Muste,<\/em>\u00a0by Joann Ooiman Robinson<\/li>\n<li><em>Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism.<\/em>\u00a0Edited by Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans<\/li>\n<li><em>Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Vols I and II,<\/em>\u00a0Edited by Elaine Enns and Ched Myers.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Essays of A.J. Muste,<\/em>\u00a0Edited by Nat Hentoff<\/li>\n<li><em>Poets for Peace, A Collection.<\/em>\u00a0Compiled and edited by Timothy Crowley<\/li>\n<li><em>We Remember: Stories<\/em>\u00a0by North Carolina Veterans of World War II, edited by Russell Reynolds<\/li>\n<li><em>The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama,<\/em>\u00a0by Tom Hayden<\/li>\n<li><em>Gandhi and Beyond: Nonviolence for an Age of Terrorism,<\/em>\u00a0by David Cortright<\/li>\n<li><em>A People\u2018s History of the United States,<\/em>\u00a0by Howard Zinn<\/li>\n<li><em>The Irony of American History,<\/em>\u00a0by Reinhold Niebuhr<\/li>\n<li><em>Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence,<\/em>\u00a0by American Friends Service Committee<\/li>\n<li><em>On Violence,<\/em>\u00a0by Hannah Arendt<\/li>\n<li><em>Pacifism in the Twentieth Century,<\/em>\u00a0by Peter Brock and Nigel Young<\/li>\n<li><em>Love is the Measure: a Biography of Dorothy Day,<\/em>\u00a0by Jim Forest<\/li>\n<li><em>War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,<\/em>\u00a0by Chris Hedges<\/li>\n<li>The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Iyer Raghavan, editor<\/li>\n<li><em>A History of Warfare,<\/em>\u00a0by John Keegan<\/li>\n<li><em>Peace: An Idea Whose Time has Come,<\/em>\u00a0by Anatol Rapaport<\/li>\n<li><em>House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power,<\/em>\u00a0by James Carroll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Reading lists provided by<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quailridgebooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Quail Ridge Books &amp; Music<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3522 Wade Ave, \u00a0Raleigh, NC 27607<\/p>\n<p>(919) 828-7912 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(800) 672-6789<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&#x6d;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x74;&#111;&#58;&#98;&#111;oks&#x40;&#x71;&#x75;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#114;&#105;&#100;geb&#x6f;&#x6f;&#x6b;&#x73;&#x2e;&#x63;&#111;&#109;\">&#x62;&#x6f;&#x6f;&#x6b;&#x73;&#x40;&#x71;&#x75;&#x61;&#x69;&#x6c;&#x72;&#x69;&#x64;&#x67;&#x65;&#x62;&#x6f;&#x6f;&#x6b;&#x73;&#x2e;&#99;&#111;&#109;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace and Justice reading list A useful way to find good books are the best of the annual \u201cNotable Book\u201d lists\u2014 most are available online, e.g.: The Association for Library Service to Children (Amer. 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